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Luck By Chance
Feb. 28th, 2009 09:58 pmI saw Luck by Chance and really liked it. There is a sweetness and warmth to the story. The main actress has a lovely sweet face, slightly pudgy, with gorgeous expressive eyes and a nice jutty-out chin that gives her a firm demeanour in profile. She looks as if she could be your neighbour, not glamourised, and I liked her a lot. Her co-actor had moments of sweetness but his double-chin bothered me a little; also, I have to agree with filmi-girl here, that he was a bit of a wooden stick. On the other hand, I didn't mind the stick-ness too much as, for me, that was the point of his character: a bit of a nobody, a bit of a vessel into which anything can be poured, a bit of a person who keeps himself to himself.
I liked the sets, also. I do like the over-the-top Bollywood sets where every family lives in a millionairesque mansion but I also really appreciated the under-the-top reality of this one. Young struggling actors live in small cramped flats, filled with higgledy-piggledy furniture and objects of the type that I remember from being a student. The sex was handled matter-of-factly: neither was it the Evil Thing To Be Avoided by the good girl, nor was it the Swoonsome Night of Awesome Love that inevitably produces a baby. In fact, it wasn't very melodramatic at all.
I like a lot stories with a moral choice. I like these in novels, and I like them in films, also. This film had a moral choice as its centre, and the character makes the wrong choice. Very brave of the film makers!
Also, I've never seen such fun credits. They are of the same model as the end credits to Main Hoon Na but these were the beginning credits. They showed the people that were credited! E.g. if the credit read 'Cinematography: so-and-so', that so-and-so was shown with a camera, and so forth. This went on down to lowly watchmen in uniforms and caps, and sempstresses making the gowns.
If you're not sure if you'd like Bollywood: I recommend this one to start out with. It has nice songs and dances, embedded in a meta-story about the film industry so they are motivated by the narrative. At the same time, it is a bit understated and real plus also has a lot of fun bits.
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filmi_girl's response to the film.
I liked the sets, also. I do like the over-the-top Bollywood sets where every family lives in a millionairesque mansion but I also really appreciated the under-the-top reality of this one. Young struggling actors live in small cramped flats, filled with higgledy-piggledy furniture and objects of the type that I remember from being a student. The sex was handled matter-of-factly: neither was it the Evil Thing To Be Avoided by the good girl, nor was it the Swoonsome Night of Awesome Love that inevitably produces a baby. In fact, it wasn't very melodramatic at all.
I like a lot stories with a moral choice. I like these in novels, and I like them in films, also. This film had a moral choice as its centre, and the character makes the wrong choice. Very brave of the film makers!
Also, I've never seen such fun credits. They are of the same model as the end credits to Main Hoon Na but these were the beginning credits. They showed the people that were credited! E.g. if the credit read 'Cinematography: so-and-so', that so-and-so was shown with a camera, and so forth. This went on down to lowly watchmen in uniforms and caps, and sempstresses making the gowns.
If you're not sure if you'd like Bollywood: I recommend this one to start out with. It has nice songs and dances, embedded in a meta-story about the film industry so they are motivated by the narrative. At the same time, it is a bit understated and real plus also has a lot of fun bits.
For a slightly different view, see
filmi_girl's response to the film.